Cream Cheese
Note Profile
About
Cream cheese is a soft, fresh dairy note. It smells milky and thick, with a clear sour tang over the top. It is mild rather than pungent, so it reads as fresh curd and not as aged cheese.
Scent Profile
Cream Cheese smells milky and thick, a soft dairy note rather than a sharp aged cheese. A clear, sour tang sits right on top of the cream. It stays mild rather than pungent, with only a faint milk-sugar sweetness and no real funk underneath.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
The referent is fresh, unripened soft cheese made by acidifying cream and milk with a lactic starter. Perfumery does not distil it. The note is built as an accord from lactones and short-chain dairy acids, and the flavour trade sells a matching cream cheese compound for food use.
Usage in Perfumery
It sits in the heart of gourmand and dessert accords, under cheesecake, frosting and baked-good themes. The tang is what it contributes.
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